Wholly Innocent - Paperback

by Katharine Powell (Author)

They could condemn her to death. But they could never make her guilty.

Salem, Massachusetts. 1692.

Fear has become a weapon. Neighbors have turned against neighbors. Innocence is no protection against accusation, and the word witch can send a woman to the gallows.

Mary Perkins Bradbury has spent a lifetime building something worth protecting. A marriage rooted in devotion. Children and grandchildren who carry her heart into the world. A home filled with the ordinary, beautiful moments that make a life.

Then, in the madness of the Salem witch trials, everything she loves is threatened.

Accused of witchcraft, imprisoned, and condemned to hang, Mary faces a terrifying truth: the law that should protect her has become the instrument of her destruction.

But Mary is not alone.

Her husband, Thomas, refuses to surrender the woman he has loved for more than half a century. Her family must confront unimaginable choices. And the love that once held their household together becomes the very force that may save her life.

Inspired by the extraordinary true story of Mary Perkins Bradbury, Wholly Innocent is a sweeping historical novel of injustice, unwavering faith, forbidden courage, and a family's refusal to abandon one of their own.

From the shores of seventeenth-century New England to the darkness of the Salem trials and the generations that followed, this is more than the story of a woman accused.

It is the story of the people who loved her, the sacrifices they made, and the truth that refused to die with her.

History remembered her accusation. Her family remembered her innocence.